March 20, 2008

[T]he schedules released Wednesday are filled with references to innocuous public ceremonies and tours and political events — surrounded by whited-out boxes of deleted material. On March 28, 1995, to pick one example, the schedule shows that Hillary Clinton landed in Lahore, Pakistan, and was "given flowers by a boy and girl dressed in traditional Pakistani clothes." Clinton then visited a village home where she was "served cold soda." On June 1, 2000, researchers will discover that Hillary Clinton flew to Waco, Texas, where she visited the "Audre & Bernard Rapoport Academy." "HRC proceeds to read 'Where the wild things Are' to approximately 71 kindergarten thru second graders," the schedule reads.

I guess we could use this to razz her about the "experience" she's claiming.

Interestingly, Hillary Clinton now has a significant lead over Obama among Democratic voters in the latest Gallup poll. An good question for Obama supporters would be, if Clinton remains ahead in opinion polls, but can't quite make up the difference in the delegate count, should the superdelegates follow the will of the people and hand the nomination to Hillary?

Or will Obama take a page from George Bush and just decide to ignore the polls because he knows better?

Then why are the Democrats complaining about the war in Iraq? Opinion polls might say the majority of the public is in favor of withdrawal, but the "only poll that counts" was taken in 2004, and Bush won it.

Funny but the UK Daily Telegraph already has written a major story on Hillary's papers debunking her experience claim. They go on about how all her help in Ireland consisted of having tea and visiting a school. They mentioned the Lahore visit as well. Essentially the point was that all her experience was, as Ann said, First Ladyish.

Showing that Hillary was present in the White House that day does conflict with one idea:

The idea that Hillary was such an active co-president that she could walk into the Oval Office at any time and get down to business (NOT a metaphor) with Bill at any time.

If that was true, Bill would have been afraid to hang out with Monica while Hillary was around.

Of course, who would believe such a crazy idea to begin with? Little wifey Hilly, who went out to do photo ops and make air kisses at Suha Arafat, wasn't an executive officer in the Oval Office. She had no security clearance.

The question becomes, which is worse, earning millions while chasing all the obstetricians out of North Carolina with lawsuits based on false science, (also leaving the entire state with a severe shortage) or earning millions in backroom deals with foreigners, often from countries not friendly to the U.S.?